Going for your Vision - 2004
Lake Oswego permanent collection, 2006 People's Choice Winner
Mild Steel, 1/4" Plate Fabricated, welded, powder-coated red
75" x 44.3" x 68.2"
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Artist's Statement
I shape and fabricate metal into open, energetic human form, representing movement and the expression of life.
The flow of this life energy is depicted in my work using curving forms with spiraling cut-outs, creating a dynamic movement within the human body.
Carefully
designed shapes of metal and the open spaces between them, play against each other to create the form, with stylized details of muscles, spine,
ribs and pelvis. Pieces are cut and shaped from sheets of steel, bronze or stainless. Intersecting planes are welded and built from the center out.
The open shapes create a lightness in the metal, allowing the form to feel as if it is moving through space freely, unbounded.
I draw from years of experimental dance and movement, the place where I find my greatest moments of free expression. The spiraling
motion reflects the flow of water around rocks and along the banks of the river where I grew up. I see the river as metaphor for the
energy I feel in my body, while dancing, flowing from the center, out my limbs. Observing dance, I capture shapes between movements,
and spaces between bodies, in gesture drawings and paintings. I transform these images into 3 dimensional designs, which are first
made of paper board, then transferred to metal in the fabrication process.
I enjoy working with the pliability and strength of metal, cutting and shaping it into permanent forms that will last through time.
I work in many sizes, from table top pieces, to life size and larger, creating public sculptures that can be viewed by people from
all walks of life. It is my hope to inspire others to be fully self-expressed in their lives.
Artist Bio
Alisa Looney is a sculptor, dancer, painter and designer. Alisa received her BFA from Boise State University in 1983.
She has been a professional designer and fine artist since 1981 and presently owns Vision Design in Portland, OR. At the age of four,
Alisa began drawing and building with clay and sand on the banks of the Spokane River, in Northern Idaho. She fell in love with metal
arts as a silver smith in her early years and began welding in 1998. With her public sculptures, Alisa has won People’s Choice Purchase
Awards in Lake Oswego Arts Downtown in 2006, and in Cannon Beach Sculpture Without Walls in 2009. She is a member of the Pacific NW
Sculptors and leads a group in RADIX, Circle of Women in the Arts. Alisa resides in Portland, OR, with her husband, artist Wade Womack
and their son Finn.
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